ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Nanostructuring of Polyphilic Liquid Crystals

Abstract: The organisation of molecules in liquid crystal phases relies on many factors, often related to space-filling considerations driven by the volume of different molecular fragments. However, in systems that contain, for example, hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon chains, the mutual immiscibility of the fragments can drive the system into higher degrees of order. In collaboration with Pace and Pibiri in Palermo, Italy, we are preparing and characterising (through a joint student) the behaviour of polyphilic compounds that contain hydrocarbon, fluorocarbon and charged segments. The ordering is a function of the need for all three different fragments to be located close to another like fragment, but from the preliminary data available from small-angle X-ray scattering, the nature of the organisation is not clear. SANS experiments offer the possibility to unravel the details of the nanostructuring.

Principal Investigator: Professor Duncan Bruce
Local Contact: Dr Sarah Rogers
Experimenter: Dr John Slattery
Experimenter: Mr Jordan Herod
Experimenter: Dr Christopher Cabry
Experimenter: Mr Alessio Riccobono

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1710406

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1710406

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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